Changeful

Performances at 3pm and 7pm by: Christie Blizard Libby Rowe Cayla Skillin-Brauchle Ortega y Gasset Projects is pleased to announce Changeful, part of The Quick Brown Fox, a series of events, performances, film screenings and public interventions this Summer at OyG. The entire program will run at 3pm and 7pm. These three performance artists use found text, monologue, ritual and interaction with sculptural objects to destabilize cultural constructs and address the viewer's inward experience. Organized by Sarah Rushford, the group of artists was selected from Emergency Index; an annual anthology of performance documentation published by Ugly Duckling Press and edited by Yelena Gluzman and Sophia Cleary. The approaches each of these performers take to reach the audience are drastically different from one another and individually they are also refreshingly volatile in tone and intent. Christie Blizard, coming in from San Antonio, claims to be embodied by rock legend Keith Moon. Her costume and monologue are both doubt-worthy and electric, like that of a stand-up-psychic-medium. Libby Rowe, also traveling from San Antonio, performs several works including Pearls of Wisdom in which she works to put on a pair of impossibly long white gloves while reading idiomatic phrases relating to good manners. And Cayla Skillin-Brauchle hailing from Salem, Oregon to be with us at OyG performs Soft Data, in which the artist’s costume functions as an informal polling station and votes are cast by slipping pieces of paper into a custom-made jumpsuit covered in small pockets. All three artists will perform at 3pm and 7pm. Changeful is part of The Quick Brown Fox, an events series with a radical roster! Be sure to check out what's on, and come along! All events are free and all are welcome. Wednesday, August 3rd, PSYCHEDELIC PANTRY PARTY Friday, August 5th, L’APPEL DU VIDE Sunday, August 14th: 3-6pm, GOLDENROD Saturday August 20th: 6pm, MULTI SENSE STORY Christie Blizard - Blizard has exhibited widely, working in a variety of media that merge painting, poetry and performance. Recent venues include the McNay Art Museum, (San Antonio, TX); The Epitome Institute, (San Antonio, TX); the School of Visual Arts, (NY, NY); The Painting Center; (NY, NY); 1708 Gallery, (Richmond, VA); Women & Their Work, (Austin, TX); Lawndale Art Center, (Houston, TX); and NOMA Gallery, (San Francisco, CA). She has also received residencies at Anderson Ranch, (Snowmass Village, CO); MacDowell Artist Colony, (Peterborough, NH); SIM Artist in Residency Program (Reykjavik, Iceland); and Centraltrack, (Dallas, TX). Her work has been featured in Art News, Hyperallergic, Blouin ArtInfo and Art in America. Libby Rowe is an artist working in photography, sculpture, interactive installation, and performance. Her artwork explores ideas of identity and belonging through self-definitions as informed by social and domestic constructs. Rowe is interested in breaking from traditional presentation strategies for photographs to engage viewers in a more interactive experience as well as the role of the photographic image in relation to femininity using image, object and installations. Rowe’s performances were included in the Vertigo Performance Series at the Waterloo Center for the Arts and Fountain Art Fair New York in 2014. Rowe’s current photographic series, Inside/Out and the installation (sub)Division were recently exhibited together at United Photo Industries in Brooklyn New York and were exhibited with Like Panes of Glass at Morlan Gallery in Lexington, KY. Rowe received her BFA from the University of Northern Iowa and her MFA from Syracuse University. She resides and works in San Antonio, Texas. Cayla Skillin-Brauchle is a visual artist whose transdisciplinary practice spans drawing, video, installation, performance, and social practice. Skillin-Brauchle’s recent performances explore things that cannot be easily measured: our relationship to our possessions and beliefs; the notion of truth; possible correlations between the social and environmental climate; and how and why we might acquire good luck. On August 13th Skillin-Brauchle will present a new and interactive performance at Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn. Skillin-Brauchle’s work has been shown at numerous international and national venues including Artspace Mackay in Queensland, Australia; the Rotunda Gallery in Bangkok, Thailand; ROY G BIV Gallery in Columbus, Ohio; the Sir JJ School of Art, Mumbai, India, and 621 Gallery in Tallahassee, Florida. Skillin-Brauchle has been awarded residencies at Iskra Print Collective, Vermont Studio Center, and most recently the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences. Having earned a BA from Beloit College (2006) and her MFA from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio (2012), Skillin-Brauchle was 2012-13 Fulbright Fellow in Mumbai, India. Skillin-Brauchle lives and works in Salem, Oregon where is an Assistant Professor of Art at Willamette University.